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"Industry's action to hide the truth

As soon as Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their results, the authorities reacted. A powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known as FEA, struck swiftly in 1992. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to issue a "gag order" against Drs. Hertel and Blanc. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for "interfering with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and fought this decision over the years.

Not long ago, this decision was reversed in a judgment delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision. The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss court in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to human health, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was ordered to pay Dr. Hertel compensation."

Quelle: http://curezone.com/foods/microwave_oven_risk.asp

By the way.... solche zweifellos sehr niedrigen Probandenzahlen sind in medizinischen Studien - auch denen der Industrie - üblich. Nur dass da selten jemand deswegen gegen die Ergebnisse polemisiert. GRößere Stichprobenumfänge sind i.d.R. nicht fiananzierbar, weil die Industrie verständlicherweise keinerlei Interesse an solchen Studien hat...

Man sollte nicht vergessen, welch massiver ökonomischer und persönlicher Druck (siehe Beispiel Schweiz) auf Forscher mitunter ausgeübt wird. So mancher hat dann nicht genügend Zivilcourage kritische Forschung zu betreiben bzw. deren Ergebnisse zu publizieren.